, 1887-11-24
PiCkinSS.

2uO1. This year 1t was over 10000,
and over 14,iO0 labor votes were cast
in Cincinnati alone.
The Yakima Indian reservation
contains 7S3.OO0 acres. 1t is occu-
pied by 1000 Indians. This gives
every Indian there, big and little,
39l! acres.
Chicago Inter ocean: President
Cleveland is out of pocket just 5000.
He sent his check for $1,000 for the
political campaign in New York, S2U
to the Charleston sufferers and SIC
to the Grant monument fund.
Harrison can. it is claimed, carry
Indiana and Hawley. Connecticut
This would give tho republicans 2Oa
electoral votes, four more than neces
sary, provided the party can carry the
same States in 1888 which it carried
in 1884.
Articles of incorporation of the
Gray's Harbor Mill Co, were re
Gently filed in San Francisco The
capital stock is fixed at S150.O00 The
object of the company is to carry Oh
general merchandise, shipping and
lumber bushes.
The excitement caused by the re-
cent discovery of rich gold bearing
rock at Prescott, Arizona, is still uu-
abated 4 number of the best citi-
zens, whose veracity is not ques-
toned, returned from the find today
and report that the first statement
will not do justice to the subject
Considerable rock is in sight that
gives $4,000 to the ton.
Oregonidn Mr.. Gwin Hicks, dep
uiy collector of internal revenue for
the Puget Sound district, sold the
residence property of his father, L,
E. Hicks, on Seventh street, between
Taylor and Salmon, to Mrs. Kate
Springer for SG250. 1t is his inten,
ton TO invest the money in real es
tate at Tacoma, where he now resides.
j. W. Robinson has began smt
against the city of Olympia for $500
in behalf of james H Pratt and wife
of Kamilchie, Mason county, who
were injured on the evening Of the
9th inst by falling into an open
sewer on Washington street, il front
Of the Odd Fellows hall. Some
workingmen had been repairing tie
sidewalk, which was taken up and The
sewer left uncovered.
II is announced that the Northern
Pacific Railroad company has Just
closed q contract for the ale OF I30,-
600 acres of timber land along THEN
line in Minnesota near Lake Superi,
or for a sum exceeding S1,000,OG0
The land has been bought by syn
dicate of lumbermen. Larger sales
usual of agricultural lands in Min
nesota and Dakota are reported by
agents of the company.
Though Northern democratic pa.
pers are asserting since the recent
elections that nothing can prevent the
success of their party next year il
the presidential election, Southern
democratic papers are warning then
brethren of the North that the bust
ness isn't settled yet; that 1T all de-
pends," and that there must be pC
utterance in the democratic nationa
platform next year against the prin
ciple of protection.
Tens of thousands of people every.
where on the coast deal by mail Will
WeinstOck Il Lubin, 400-4l0 X st.
Sacramento, Cal, clear indicatiOl
that their goods are WOrth knOWin,
about. The new Fall Catalogue jus
issued (free) tells all about the new
things in Dry Goods, Clothing
Household Supplies, etc. and i.
much the finest book ever issued by
this firm. Send for a copy by posta
card, or otherwise, and see what Cal
ifornia enterprise Is doing.
A special to the New York IVorlc
from Savannah, dated the 18th, says
A church fight, with the sectiona
issue as its principal feature, ended
to-day in refusal by the Indepen,
dent Presbyterian congregation, by
vote of 1S5 to 119, to invite Rev
Leonard WOolsey Bacon, D. D., sol
of the famous New England clergy
man of that name, to become its per
manent pastor. Last summer DIR
Bacon gave expression to sentiment:
in his Fourth of July sermon il
which the names of Lincoln anG
Lee figured, to which large por-
ton of the members took such VIC
lent exception that they declared
that he had preached his funera
sermon. In the four months tha,
have elapsed since that time the
fight TO Oust him has been VIGOROUS
and bitter.
The methods of Commissioner
Sparks have hassthe effect of arraying
the settlers on the public lands al
most solidly against the administra-
ton, without regard to past or pres
ent political affiliations. Mr.. Sparks
has taken it upon himself at one time
or another to suspend the operation
of pretty nearly all the settlement
laws enacted by congress. Special
agents have been employed to make
secret Investigations of settlers
claims, and vast numbers nave been
cancelled on the reports OF these se-
cret agents, and the purchase money
paid 10y the settlers for their lands
has been confscated. This has made
the administration of the land depart
ment very unpopular in the newer
parts of tho country. Then there
absurd rulings about the land grant
railroads. as tho one holding that the
Northern Pacific had no grant be-
tween Portland and Puget Sound
The secretary as the responsible
head of his department, has bocn
Obliged to reverse Sparks in many of
these matters, and Sparks las been
sndeavOring to retaliate 10y throwing
out hints against the integrity of his
hyperion officer, and has even refused
to carry out his instructions
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